Anyone fancy a get-together on April 21st? I can't make any promises, but it should be more than your usual showing - and it's on 3 times in the one day. Think Tank is about 3/4 mile from Birmingham New Street (I will travel by train from Leicester and I would aim to get there before the first of the three showings on the day - about 11ish

I'm definitely interested and Angie, my wife, is also keen (possibly daughter Elanor too but she may be otherwise engaged). We would probably travel from North Wales by train, arriving in time for the second showing if not the first. Is advance booking advisable? Hope to see you there, and with luck some other members too. regards,Nigel.

Helen's said she wants to come as well, so there can be something of a Mars widows get together at the same time

Hopefully within a few days I'll know a few more details - then I would say yes, booking will probably make sense. If we get enough numbers, perhaps we can do a bulk booking (minimum would probably be 10)

Angie in fact had her primary school kids making 'Mars rovers' out of motorised Lego way back in Pathfinder days. Elanor attended my GCSE Astronomy class last year and achieved an A grade - so I'm pretty lucky that way all in all.

Almost 24 hours and no more responses?. I'm surprised. I think you need to move this to the front page or flag it up somewhere in the MER section. Remember how long it took some members to find the 'barbecue'?

My wife and I would be happy to join you all but after checking the train schedules there doesn't appear to be a convenient route for us right now. I was told that we really need to wait until this bridge is completed.

I missed this because I've been in Prague for the weekend walking myself into the ground. Anyway you can definitely count me in as I've just booked the flight to Birmingham on the 21st. Carpe diem and all that.

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